Dark Water (Honogurai mizu no soko kara)
August 11, 2002
Hideo ‘Ring’ Nakata continues his Japanese horror masterclass with Dark Water, a spine-tingling tale concerning a mother and daughter living in a haunted apartment. After the success of the first two Ring movies, director Nakata returns to...
The Singing Detective
April 6, 2002
For years, Keith Gordon has been quietly building up an impressive career as a director. He initially made his mark as an actor in some of Brian De Palma’s early work. Eventually, Gordon got tired of starring mindless fluff like Back to School (1986)...
Time Without Pity
March 20, 2002
Filmmaker Joseph Losey was blacklisted from Hollywood during the McCarthy witch-hunts of the 1950s. He relocated to England and made films under a pseudonym. Time Without Pity (1957) was made during his early British incarnation period (1954-62) and was...
Se7en
January 5, 2002
I was sitting in MacDonalds with some friends not too long ago munching on my Big Mac and fries when a hugely obese man passes us. We all saw him, you can’t not see a hugely obese man walking past your table, but it didn’t stop us from finishing...
JFK (Director’s Cut Two-Disc Special Edition)
December 6, 2001
They say that the third time’s the charm and this certainly applies to the latest DVD version of Oliver Stone’s film, JFK (1991). Previous incarnations included a movie-only edition spread over two sides of a single disc and an extras-packed two DVD...
Darkness
December 3, 2001
Despite being snapped up by Dimension Films in America, this Spanish horror has yet to see the light of day, possibly due to its muddled screenplay and studio executives with cold feet. But letting it languish in limbo like this means it may never find...
